The Day The Earth Stood Still (with Keanu). Not bad. Not great, but not bad. Remakes generally tend to be just simple orgies of effects. This one
avoided that, which was nice. Sort of. I still wanted that orgy.

And the CGI wasn't even that great. It might have looked okay in theaters but in 1080p, it looked like your average video game.

(AVATAR) Yes, it was MUCH better in theaters, and in 3D. It loses a LOT on the small screen (even if you have a big screen). On my 47" (has to fit in
the entertainment center, so was as big as I could go, hehe)...it really paled in comparison to the movie experience. (and the CGI was far more
noticeable). In theaters, it really didn't look CGI...

The director seemed to be going for Friday meets
Snatch, which could have worked out well in theory, but he just didn't get it quite right.

After watching Donald Faison as a nerdy surgeon for years on Scrubs, he's just not that believable as the idiot stoner type. Mos Def was good, as
usual, but he wasn't given nearly enough screen time. The other actors were okay, but just okay. Nothing special.

I chuckled a couple of times and enjoyed Mos Def's character, so I'm gonna say "watch it if you get a chance but don't run right out and buy it on
DVD."

Saw grown ups last night. Very corny, almost a kids film. Had some funny parts, but sandler hasnt had a good movie in a while. I didnt care much for
funny people as it crossed the fine line that makes crude funny then just plain old stupid.

The film retells the tale of the Communist ascendancy and triumph, and has a star-studded cast including Andy Lau, Ge You, Hu Jun, Leon Lai, Zhang
Ziyi, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhao Wei, and directors Jiang Wen, Chen Kaige and John Woo, many of whom make cameo appearances so brief they could be
easily missed; the leading roles are played by actors equally renowned in China, such as Tang Guoqiang and Zhang Guoli, but they are less well-known
internationally.

As a fan of history. I have been studying the history of the Chinese Civil War and so forth. This movie presents the Communist party of China and the
aftermath is a good light. I learned Chinese phrases and read hours of subtitles for this movie. I would give the person interested in this subject
and a fan of Communism or the People's Republic of China a 8 out of 10. If you don't agree then 4 or 5 out of 10. There are many famous Chines
celebrities and a great cast acting as great leaders of China, Russian and the U.S. This movie is very enjoyable and easy to get into.

Absolutely awful! I loved the first one and was expecting this one to be good as well.. I didn't have to hide behind my hands once! Not happy.

Also, I didn't really buy the whole 'our house got messed up once, so lets have camera's installed everywhere as a deterrent to this burglar'. It
made no sense. I could understand a camera or two outside, maybe a security fence... but if all that other stuff didn't put a burglar off, why would
camera's inside the house mean anything?

So there was an article on MSN last week about the top 50
sci-fi movies of all time. I'd seen most of them but there were a couple that had escaped me. One was a really recent movie with Sam Rockwell
called Moon, which happened to be available on NetFlix streaming. It came in on that list as #29.

So, I downloaded it and watched it. Had I not been expecting one of the great scifi movies of all time, I may have enjoyed it more. Rockwell
certainly does a great acting job in it, but overall I don't think it would come in on my top 50 list.

Body Of Lies - this is a great movie. I have tried disliking Leo DiCapprio, but he is just a good actor. I thought this was an outstanding movie,
detailing some of the concepts of the shady underworld of intelligence. One of the characters from Daybreakers was in this, which made us chuckle (we
watched them back to back).

Inception - Another DiCapprio movie. I loved it. I love movies that delve into the mind and/or dream states. This one was every bit the confusing,
mind based movie that I expected. But not too hard to keep up with, and very thought provoking. My wife said it was like The Matrix. I thought that
same thing a few times.

I'm surprised you didn't like it, if you liked the first. The second one was pretty much the same formula. It wasn't that they thought cameras
would deter a burglar, but once you've been victimized, you just feel you have to do SOMETHING, and for him, that something was putting up a bunch of
cameras.

And even I jumped at the kitchen cabinets scene...and I can pretty much sit through most any horror movie without a twitch.... Still though, you know
what you like, just sorry you didn't get as much from the sequel, I actually liked it better, especially the non-cheesy ending.

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Why is Blade Runner considered a top sci-fi movie? It's decent...but I never thought it was all that. Parts of it are quite boring really. I hope
Tron was in the list somewhere. That movie got a bad rap...and I'm glad to see it being re-imagined...

I'm surprised you didn't like it, if you liked the first. The second one was pretty much the same formula. It wasn't that they thought cameras
would deter a burglar, but once you've been victimized, you just feel you have to do SOMETHING, and for him, that something was putting up a bunch of
cameras.

And even I jumped at the kitchen cabinets scene...and I can pretty much sit through most any horror movie without a twitch.... Still though, you know
what you like, just sorry you didn't get as much from the sequel, I actually liked it better, especially the non-cheesy ending.

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Why is Blade Runner considered a top sci-fi movie? It's decent...but I never thought it was all that. Parts of it are quite boring really. I hope
Tron was in the list somewhere. That movie got a bad rap...and I'm glad to see it being re-imagined...

Paranormal Activity 2 was just a rehash of the first one, with less scary stuff thrown in. I mean, that standing at the side of the bed and staring
thing....THAT was creepy.

Sequels should make some attempt to break some kind of new ground. Not just rehash the previous.

But I agree about Tron. I thought it was a great movie back when it first came out.

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